GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Talent shortages, especially limited drivers, will exacerbate the capacity crunch and result in shortages across warehousing and transportation simultaneously.? . Pent-up demand of customers and the strong predictions for another above-average peak season has put a unique burden on truckload and parcel transportation. Focusing on the?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

While not completely protecting them from the supply shocks that occurred during the pandemic, it allowed them to respond to their customers with greater speed and agility, manage costs, and provide options when a supply chain disruption occurred. This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.”

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

OTR freight represents a long-standing aspect of supply chain operations and transportation management. M odern transportation networks and supply chains continuously adapt to market volatility and transitions. Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 16, 2015

As a third-party logistics company focused on over the road transportation management, and having an LTL rating engine and web-based TMS for nearly 20 years (web-based even before Google!), at Cerasis, we know a thing or two about the nuances of LTL procurement. LTL procurement is something we do very well.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement. Should they be moving away from a Just in Time procurement method to Just in Case?

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 27, 2024

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. Coast Guard authorities are assured that the bridge debris and/or underwater obstacles are sufficiently cleared for cargo ship navigation. East Coast.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It’s challenging for logistics providers to keep up, even in perfect supply chain conditions. But, as we know, supply chain conditions were far from perfect in 2020 and 2021. Just as the world of omni-channel selling is here to stay, supply chain disruptions also seem to have become the norm.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2023

While transport providers including FedEx , the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon Logistics and others will seek to handle any fallout, the sheer volume level exceeds available industry capacity and will result in cascading disruptions for industry supply chains. transportation and logistics interests.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Ingraining new approaches to business development would help restructure supply chains effectively. The “first-sale” rule.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Disruption. In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solution Marketing team explores innovative solutions to guard against supply chain disruptions. Unfortunately, what we’re seeing in China may be only the beginning of a new era of supply chain disruption driven by climate change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

As the world is in year two of the Covid pandemic, and the supply chain landscape has changed, it is time to revisit Amazon’s supply chain and see how it has changed and how prepared it is for the future. Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases ; Dr. Madhav Durbha ( Coupa ).

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Unleashed

AUGUST 20, 2023

Lead time includes both the time it takes to complete the standard process tasks and any delays that might occur due to various factors, such as supply chain disruptions, machine downtime, or unexpected quality issues. It includes everything from the procurement of raw materials to production, inventory management, and shipping.

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AFFLINK

AUGUST 17, 2022

The purpose of any supply chain is to get materials from the point of origin to the place of need as quickly and inefficiently as possible. In today's market — now pockmarked by erratic supply chain disruptions — fulfillment is easier said than done.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

This sounds simple enough, but we all know it’s a very complex issue and that’s partially because ESG concerns touch every part of the value chain, from the field or mine where raw materials are sourced to the packaging and transport modes used to bring your finished product to market.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He writes, “Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident. ”[2] He insists supply chain innovation today is not a choice, but an imperative. .”

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. March and now Q1-2022 data point to continued disruption, added cost inflation and elongated transit times continuing to be manifested in the months ahead. . Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices. Global Shipping.

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Turvo

JULY 15, 2021

In the logistics and shipping industry, capacity refers to the amount of space secured on trucks and other vehicles to carry shipment loads. This generally gets referred to as trucking capacity, and it remains one of the most critical aspects of dealing with supply chain disruptions.

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QAD

APRIL 26, 2022

The supply chain expo MODEX 2022 held last month included a keynote presentation highlighting the 2022 MHI Annual Industry Report “Evolution to Revolution: Building the Supply Chains of Tomorrow.” The post 3 Questions Supply Chain Leaders Should Be Asking appeared first on QAD Blog. So, what can be done?

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

We indicated that the implications of unprecedented, elevated levels of inflation levels will vary by specific industry, but taken as a whole, they present a number of complex product management, procurement and supply chain planning challenges that will need to be tackled. The report observes that in December 2021, U.S.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even more concerning is that the death toll has spread outside of mainland China and ships outside of ports in Hong Kong and Japan are being quarantined. . Beyond this enormous human toll, the Coronavirus and the efforts to control the spread of the virus is being felt throughout the world’s supply chain.

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2023

According to McKinsey survey of global supply chain leaders , only 53% of respondents describe the quality of data in their supply chain planning systems as “sufficient” or “high.” less likely to be affected by supply chain disruptions.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The year featured continual component shortfalls, explosive inbound materials cost increases and continuous global transportation disruptions. As the year 2021 drew to a close, industry supply chains experienced a constant struggle in attempting to respond to overwhelming pandemic related product demands.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This has been especially the case over the last two plus years with the onset of the global-wide Covid-19 pandemic and with consequent and unprecedented supply and transportation network disruptions. Consumer anticipation was thus compounded by a developing global supply chain disruption.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 12, 2022

Dinneen echoed this, reminding attendees of the importance of shipping companies considering these qualities when partnering with carriers of any size, whether an upstart or a semi-national parcel carrier such as LaserShip. Over the past two years, supply chain disruptions have complicated purchasing items as simple as oranges.

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Elementum

MAY 19, 2022

The industrial revolution and the advent of the railroad and ocean freighters opened the door to national and global supply networks. The 50’s saw the development of “containerization” which enabled intermodal (ship, rail, air, truck) transport. However, supply chain disruptions are a lot like lightning strikes.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There should be little doubt that the past three years has provided a lot of both revelation and learning opportunities for multi-industry supply chains. Instead, vehicles are sold online and then shipped directly to consumers globally, relying on transportation and logistics services networks. reasonable costs. ”.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this particular assessment, we reflect on our prediction that cost inflation trends that occurred among global logistics and transportation modes last year, would be unsustainable, and would drive remediation efforts. Mid-Year Global Transportation Assessment.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. This report cites data from the U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

This article explores 10 possible areas in which can help at each stage of the flow in Supply Chain Management. Procurement. Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Another area where RPA is coming to the fore is in communication.

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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Another geopolitical event, the Russo-Ukrainian war disrupted supply chain operations in a major way in 2022. Likewise, ships could not sail into or out of Russia and Ukraine. and global economies factored considerably in supply chain disruptions. We saw supply shortages lead to price increases.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Instead, import volumes to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Wall Street Journal published report on this situation (Paid subscription) indicates that in previous Covid vaccine rollouts, vaccine makers such as Pfizer and Moderna shipped needed doses directly to designated vaccination centers. Moderna reportedly has shipped millions of doses to support vaccine administration needs as wel l.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. Production growth reportedly was weighted down by ongoing severe supply chain disruptions widespread materials and component shortages. According to the J.P.

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